Till recently, we used the IPv4 version, which provided us with a 32-bit address. But these available addresses will be exhausted soon. The newer version of IP, is the IPv6, on the other hand, offers ...

For the most part, the dire warnings about running out of internet addresses have ceased, because, slowly but surely, migration from the world of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6 has begun, ...

IPv6 offers several ways that aren’t possible in IPv4 to assign IP addresses, and DNS set-up has differences as well. As IP technology has matured, the range of devices that the internet protocol ...

The time is ripe for your business to migrate to IPv6, but you need to keep your new connections safe. Internet Protocol version six (IPv6) is the way that internet communication will be handled for ...

It would have been so easy if the early Internet and TCP/IP network designers had made IPv6 backward compatible with IPv4. They didn't. In 1981, IPv4's 32-bit 4.3 billion addresses look more than ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

In this post, I will explain some of the basics that are easy to understand. Before we discuss the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, we need to know some of the basics of IPv4. Finally, I will ...

Support for IPv6 is enabled by default in most operating systems, and legend has it that disabling it will increase your internet speed. That's not really true, and here's why. Chris Hoffman at The ...

CDN network Akamai today published its quarterly “State of the Internet” report for the first quarter of 2016. The report examines global internet speeds, which are going to be more relevant than ever ...